asterisk users - Mar 2009 - Voicemail config help - require password

How do you require a password for a voicemail box?  I have been
searching all day, and can't find any type of "security" setting
for
voicemail.  I am looking for some what to have some minimum security
like "no blanks, can't be the same as the extension, can't be
sequential numbers or repeated numbers".  I know that not all of these
options may exist, but there has to be a way to require a password?
If not, does anyone have an external script that does some of the
above before I write one?

Also, is there a way to retain deleted messages for a length of time
before they are purged?  We currently have that "feature" on our
production VM server that I am trying to replicate.  Thanks!

-Jonathan

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 17:02:33 Jonathan Thurman
wrote:
> How do you require a password for a voicemail box?  I have been
> searching all day, and can't find any type of "security"
setting for
> voicemail.  I am looking for some what to have some minimum security
> like "no blanks, can't be the same as the extension, can't be
> sequential numbers or repeated numbers".  I know that not all of these
> options may exist, but there has to be a way to require a password?
> If not, does anyone have an external script that does some of the
> above before I write one?
>
> Also, is there a way to retain deleted messages for a length of time
> before they are purged?  We currently have that "feature" on our
> production VM server that I am trying to replicate.  Thanks!
Starting in 1.6.2, yes.  The setting within voicemail.conf that controls this
is externpasscheck.  This setting controls the name of a script used for
password validation.  The script should output the value 'VALID', plus
any
additional details you want in the log if the password meets the specified
rules and 'FAILURE' (followed by any additional details) otherwise.

-- 
Tilghman

On 19/03/2009, Jonathan Thurman <jthurman42 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>  Also, is there a way to retain deleted messages for a length of time
>  before they are purged?  We currently have that "feature" on our
>  production VM server that I am trying to replicate.  Thanks!
Could this be done with a simple nightly cron job? Something like

find /var/lib/asterisk/messages [I forget the path] -name *.wav -mtime
+90 -exec rm {} \;

That'll delete any WAV files older than 90 days. Mind you, there might
be an index file that needs editing as well (haven't used the VM
system for a while) so a script may be needed...

Andrew

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